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It is a busy morning here at
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An Amazing Video. A Must Watch
This is the most comprehensive and
scientifically accurate, three-dimensional map of the known universe. Take a short 2 minute, hyper-light, voyage to the star HR 8799. I'll expect you to swoon with several outbursts of awe and wonder several times during the journey.
Mar 11, 2013
This visualization, produced using
the Hayden Planetarium's Digital Universe--the most comprehensive and
scientifically accurate, three-dimensional map of the known universe--
shows where the star HR 8799 is in relation to our solar system.
Recently, a team of researchers led by the American Museum of Natural
History used a suite of high-tech instrumentation and software called
Project 1640 (www.amnh.org/project1640) to collect the first chemical
fingerprints, or spectra, of the four red exoplanets orbiting this star.
This visualization also shows other stars that are known to harbor
planetary systems (stars with blue circles around them). HR 8799's
system, which is 128 light years away from Earth, is one of only a
couple of these stars that have been imaged, and the only one for which
spectroscopy of all the planets has been obtained. Over the next three
years, the team will survey many of these other stars in the same manner
in which they studied HR 8799.
Two Members of our Space Center Community Bag the Big Ones!
John Robe is a 2013 Sterling Scholar! John is a member of the Space Center's Programming Guild.
Justin Meiners won the Farnsworth Award. Justin was a former member of our Space Center Programming Guild.
Congratulations!
John wrote this on his Facebook page:
I
WON!! Wasatch Front Computer Technology Sterling Scholar. So
unbelievable - I'm in complete shock. It was unbelievable that I could
be associated with such an amazing group of talented people. I am truly
blessed, and I am so grateful to all of the people that made this
possible. I love you all! - Also congratulations to Justin Meiners on getting the Farnsworth award!!
OK, Time to Get Blown Away by this Amazing Invention
"Using
new communication technologies, 'MYO', the wearable gesture controlled
arm-band by Thalmic Labs is capable of measuring electrical activity in
muscle movement instantly. The device provides a seamless way to
interact with computers - giving users an accurate sense of control.
With the wave of a hand, 'MYO' transforms interactions by simply
utilizing the electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control video
games, phones, and other digital products."
Watch this short video of this amazing gadget in action.
Russia to Build Asteroid Shield
Russia will complete a plan for a program to protect itself against
threats from space by the end of this year, Civil Defense and
Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said on Tuesday.
Read More
Time May Not Be a Fourth Dimension New Paper Suggests
There
are all sorts of wacky hypotheses concerning the existence of time or
the lack thereof (we should know, we've covered a few of the less fringy
of those clams before), but this is one that perhaps makes the most
sense compared to the rest. A team of researchers have written two
papers that claim time is not the fourth dimension of the universe as we
are led to believe, but instead, time is merely the numerical order of
change. Read More
Ancient Mars Had Fresh Water and Could Have Supported Life
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
Scientists identified sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and
carbon -- some of the key chemical ingredients for life -- in the
powder Curiosity drilled out of a sedimentary rock near an ancient
stream bed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet last month. Read More
The Imaginarium
The Imaginarium's Clever and Imaginative Advertisement Award goes to the following
Imaginative, but a no no.
Kim Jong Piggy's North Korean Commandos in their
newest camo.
Disney and Star Wars forthcoming release?
All marble.
Amazing!
Read the fine print.
Imagination: A
3 comments:
Hurray! I knew sending you those LOLCat and LOLDog pictures would be useful someday.
THe star recon film was very cool and inspiring.
Congrats John Robe! I am going for Sterling Scholar in Computer Technology for my region too, ours is in about a month. It's great to know how well CMSEC staff place and I think it is awesome that the space center has the power to provide such an amazing foundation for so many students! Once again, congrats! :D
was the big meeting Tuesday? What did the district say?
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